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Find your next unputdownable read at the 2025 TAA Conference on Textbook & Academic Authoring Bookstore! Learn how to boost your productivity, master scholarly article writing, develop your college textbook, finish writing your dissertation, or expand your knowledge on topics such as music, ESL, education, business communication, physics, and much more!
Find your next unputdownable read at the 2025 TAA Conference on Textbook & Academic Authoring Bookstore! Learn how to boost your productivity, master scholarly article writing, develop your college textbook, finish writing your dissertation, or expand your knowledge on topics such as music, ESL, education, business communication, physics, and much more!
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Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar
By Tara Gray
eBook $9.95 +tax | Print $25 +shipping
Triple your productivity. Write prose that is clearer, better organized, and more compelling. Publish in better journals and get more grants. Ninety scholars who followed the steps were studied, and 95% reported that their writing improved. They also increased then number of manuscripts submitted from a rate of two per year to nearly six. You can too.
A Prayer Book for Students and Teachers
By Dr. Karissa Lee-Hutchins
eBook $5.99 | Print $16.99
Rarely do we think of the need for prayer in a school setting, but prayer can be a source of sustenance and comfort as we meet daily challenges in our lives. Dr. Karissa has penned a series of prayers over most situations that arise in a school setting. These meditations are insightful and imbued with humility for anyone who is striving for success or advancement or is in need of comfort in times of challenge or transition.
Becoming the Writer You Already Are
By Dr. Michelle R. Boyd
eBook $18.99 + tax | Print $29.00 + shipping
Why is writing so terrifying? Becoming the Writer You Already Are explains why being afraid of writing is neither strange nor shameful. And introduces the Writing Metaphor, a tool that illuminates what you already know about overcoming writing challenges. Becoming shows you how to consult, trust, and follow that process. So you can live a pleasurable, productive, satisfying writing life.
Understanding Racism: Theories of Oppression and Discrimination
By Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl
Rent $27.67 | Print $51
Understanding Racism systematically examines the theories and theorists that have contributed the most to our contemporary understanding of racism in its various forms‚ making it easier for students to understand the multiple dynamics of how racism operates. The book's systematic organization and pedagogical features will help students think theoretically about race and racism at different levels of analysis, as well as reflect and discuss how to challenge racism.
The Reciprocal Relationship of Culture & Leadership
By Millicent Lindiwe Ndaba
eBook $9.79 | Print $39.99
The purpose of the book is to demonstrate how culture and leadership interact with each other contextualising this using South African organisations. This seeks to contribute towards building effective global leaders that are in touch with reality. Demonstrating how their behaviour make the families, organisations, societies, countries and the world better places to live/work.
Gateway to Music
By Jocelyn C. Nelson
eBook (180 day access) $97.95 | eBook (perpetual access) $107.95 | Print (paperback) $153.95
The award-winning Gateway to Music broadens standard notions of music with an introduction to local and global musical traditions, blended with social, cultural, and historical contexts. It is ideal for music courses and an engaging source for any music lover. No musical background necessary. Use code TAA20 for 20% off during checkout!
Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation
By Noelle Sterne, PhD
eBook $45.50 | Print (paperback) $45.00 (hardcover) $84.68
For doctoral candidates struggling with their dissertations, Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation, is different from other how-to-write-your-dissertation books: they deal with the structure and contents. Challenges, with lively examples, humor, and provocative questions, addresses the surrounding, often overlooked or ignored but crucial aspects that can seriously delay dissertation completion: emotional, interpersonal, and even spiritual issues.
How to Create Happiness at Work: Seven Evidence-Based Strategies to Enjoy Your Day
By Angelica Ribeiro, PhD
eBook $9.99 | Print $16.99
If you wait until you clock out from work to be happy, you’ll spend one-third of your life feeling unhappy. Being happy at work makes you more productive, creative, optimistic, and better prepared to overcome challenges and manage stress. Combining storytelling and science, Angelica Ribeiro shares simple strategies for you to create happiness at work.
By Mary Ellen Guffey and Dana Loewy
eBook $50 (access till March 2025) Print $312.95 (Other low-cost options exist)
Business Communication: Process & Product (11e) offers a comprehensive guide to mastering business communication skills. Covering the latest trends and practical techniques, it equips readers with tools for writing, speaking, and presenting professionally, ensuring success in today's dynamic business environment. Ideal for students and professionals aiming to enhance communication efficiency.
Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies: Best Practices for Public Procurement
By William Sims Curry
eBook: $66.39 | Print (hardcover) $66.39
Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies: Best Practices for Public Procurement, Third Edition describes research based best procurement practices for state and local levels. This textbook, recipient of TAA’s Textbook Excellence Award, is suggested for graduate or undergraduate courses. The best practices are based on nationwide research conducted from 2006 to present.
Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement
By William Sims Curry
eBook: $62.39 | Print (hardcover) $62.39
This third edition of Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement incorporates research-based best practices, real-world procurement fraud cases, and offers recommendations for deterring fraud. This textbook is aimed at public administration, policy and procurement, along with public procurement postgraduate students and academics working in the fields of public administration, policy and procurement.
Edited by Joseph (Rocky) F. Wallace, Valerie Flanagan, and Robin Magruder
eBook $24.50 Print (paperback) $26.00 (hardcover) $78.00
Social Emotional Learning and Servant Leadership: True Stories from the Classroom is a collection of real experiences, written by faculty and alumni of Campbellsville University's School of Education. This collection illustrate sthe diverse needs of P-12 students, and the interventions that can make a life-changing difference in their young lives.
School Safety: True Stories and Solutions from School Leaders
Edited by Joseph (Rocky) F. Wallace, Stephanie Sullivan, and Ann Burns
eBook $30.50 Print (paperback) $32.00 (hardcover) $75.00
School Safety: True Stories and Solutions from School Leaders, is a transparent look at the diverse mix of safety issues school administrators face every day. The wisdom shared in how these real events were handled with fast thinking and care for all parties makes this read a helpful resource for any educator.
Principal to Principal: Conversations in Servant Leadership
Edited by Joseph (Rocky) F. Wallace, with Contributions by Jenny Ray
eBook $26.50 Print (paperback) $28.00 (hardcover) $70.00
Principal to Principal: Conversations in Servant Leadership (Second Edition). This story chronicles a school principal's first year at the helm, and how she navigates the array of challenges with the help of a veteran retiring principal. The chapter by chapter scenarios and conversations between the two inspire the reader to embrace servant leadership as a lifestyle that changes lives, and creates a culture of care in a school community.
By Dave Harris
eBook $5.99 Print (paperback) $15.99
Instead of being an ordeal to survive, a dissertation can be a rewarding opportunity to develop your own vision and voice as a researcher. Getting the Best offers perspectives that support practical action and positive motivation. Research is hard work, but with the right practice, it can be a labor of love. Published by Thought Clearing.
Literature Review and Research Design: A Guide to Effective Research Practice
By Dave Harris
eBook $27.19 | Print (paperback) $27.19 (hardcover) $128.00
Is research literature a foundation on which you build your own work, or an ocean in which you drown? Literature Review and Research Design offers practical perspectives on using literature in the design and development of your own research project, with special attention on writing the project’s literature review. Published by Routledge.
By Barrie J. Roberts
eBook $34.95 | Print (paperback) $34.95
This book guides non-native English speakers though Getting to Yes, the international bestseller on “win-win” negotiation. Each chapter provides a lesson plan and activities along with page-by-page explanations of words, idioms and concepts. Use this book to help non-native English speakers negotiate on an equal footing with fluent English speakers. Published by the University of Michigan Press.
By Michelle Violanti and Stephanie Kelly
eBook $47.00 | Print (paperback) $71.76
Business and Professional Communication Playbook teaches students the essentials of business communication and necessary skillset that employers look for today. The authors use engaging examples, provide tips on how to carry yourself professionally, and incorporate real-life experiences from recent graduates to teach students how to communicate like a professional through focused, bite-sized chapters. Published by SAGE.
By Mark A. Cunningham
eBook $55.00 | Print (paperback) $70.00
Beyond Classical Physics provides an introduction to modern physics. It discusses the nature of the microscopic universe from a modern perspective, based on Einstein's notions of relativity and Noether's proof of the emergence of conservation laws from symmetries of the equations of motion. The second half of the book explores various aspects of many-body physics, ranging from chemical systems to plasmas to black holes.
By Mark A. Cunningham
eBook $40.00 | Print (paperback) $55.00
Neoclassical Physics is an introductory text in which physics concepts are introduced as a means of understanding experimental observations, not as a sequential list of facts to be memorized. The book is structured around the key scientific discoveries that led to much of our current understanding of the universe. Numerous exercises are provided that utilize Mathematica software to help students explore how the language of mathematics is used to describe physical phenomena. Published by Springer.
By Janice Koch
eBook $47.00 | Print (paperback) $129.00
Through a concise but wide-ranging exploration of the American public education system, Teach: Introduction to Education asks readers to imagine themselves in the classroom and develop their own ideas of what it means to be a teacher. Combining historical and contemporary perspectives, along with real-life classroom stories, Koch helps future teachers examine the ways in which society and culture shape schools. Published by SAGE.
By Gregory A. Lewbart
eBook $216.00 | Print (hardcover) $269.95
Invertebrate Medicine is the definitive resource on husbandry and veterinary medicine in invertebrate species. Presenting authoritative information applicable to both in-human care and wild invertebrates, this comprehensive volume addresses the medical care and clinical condition of most important invertebrate species—providing biological data for sponges, jellyfish, anemones, snails, sea hares, corals, cuttlefish, squid, octopuses, clams, oysters, crabs, crayfish, lobsters, shrimp, hermit crabs, spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, honey bees, butterflies, beetles, sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, various worms, and many other invertebrate groups. Winner of a TAA 2024 McGuffey Longevity Award. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc.
By Daphne C. Watkins
eBook $29.00 (90-day access) | Print (paperback) $68.00
With the increasing amount of secondary data available, researchers have a trove of sources for new investigations at their fingertips but few books to guide them. This text provides a step-by-step guide for incorporating secondary data into mixed methods designs and identifies characteristics of existing datasets that make them good candidates for mixed methods projects. Winner of a TAA 2024 Most Promising New Textbook Award. Published by SAGE.
By Dr. Olga Zbarskaya
eBook $54.99 | Print $65.00
Brainstorm! Practice for Unrestricted Imagination and Original Thought shows, with scientific proof, that the powerful engine of creativity has unlimited fuel and can power every sphere of life, from food preparation to personal relationships and from academia to government administration. It is a manual for leveraging creative thought to overcome barriers, solve difficult problems, and streamline and optimize day-to-day living. Educators, institutional leaders, and CEOs will discover how creativity-boosting courses and trainings can promote unprecedented performance and productivity among students and employees.
By Jean Derricotte-Murphy
eBook $35 | Print (paperback) $35.00 (hardcover) $50
Performative voices of scholars of color present the balcony, opera performances, and opera glasses as signifiers of the origins and entrenchment of racism in the United States. This work metaphorically seats readers in theater and societal balconies while glimpsing into and correcting the harmful historical, philosophical, and religious underpinnings of American systemic racism.
By G. W. Hildebrand
eBook $102.00 | Print (paperback) $102.00 (hardcover) $212.50
Criminal Investigation on the Street presents investigative principles and techniques--and applies them to solving real-world crimes--in an engaging, student-friendly style centered on the Investigative Triangle: legal aspects, evidence, and behavioral analysis. Students and instructors alike will benefit from this book's comprehensive coverage and accessible writing style. Published by Routledge.
By Linda B. Tucker
eBook $19.49 | Print $21.66
Get to know the wider fashion industry through wholesale selling. Clearly illustrated case studies and industry-focused exercises put the journey from apparel factory to retailer into a practical, real-world context. From working with fashion vendors, to navigating trade shows, and working in different territories, Fashion Wholesaling is the ultimate guide to an often-overlooked career.
By Janace Bubonia
eBook $112.50 | Print (paperback) $112.50
Apparel Production Terms and Processes, Third Edition defines materials and terms relating to global mass production of raw materials, design and development, garment details and component parts, sizing and fit, patternmaking tools methods and computer technology, pre-production operations, assembly, production and manufacturing, labeling regulations, testing and quality control, inspection, finishing, and packaging.
By Kenneth Womack and Kenneth L. Campbell
eBook $34.95 | Print (hardcover) $34.95
Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song is an authoritative guide coauthored by renowned music scholar Kenneth Womack and music historian Kenneth L. Campbell and offering an in-depth exploration of Bruce Springsteen's musical legacy. Covering Springsteen's entire discography, from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to Only the Strong Survive, this unique book combines historical context, literary analysis, and meticulous research.
By Lauren M. Balasco, Jennifer Forestal, and Claire Abernathy
Print (paperback) $99.99
Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students' lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. Engaging Citizenship offers a rich and balanced introduction to all four subfields of Political Science, in conversation with one another.
By Elaine A. Zweig, PhD, Lin Moore, PhD, and Pamela Sawyer, PhD
Website Access (180 days): $84.99
This book has been written to assist teachers, childcare and education administrators, health care providers, social service workers, and all who work with young children to recognize and understand the abuse, neglect, and trauma of children. While the book is focused on educational interventions, it also provides information for professionals in child welfare and health care, contains practical ideas on working with families and children, and includes not only history and theory but also best practices in working with young children.
By Jamie Pope and Steven Nizielski
eBook $59.99 | Print Book (looseleaf) $ $106.99 | Online Access $94.99
Written and illustrated in the style of Scientific American magazine, Nutrition for a Changing World engages students like no other nutrition textbook. Chapters focus on real stories—about real people and real science—bringing context and relevance to the core science. Infographics serve as “science storyboards,” guiding students step by step through essential processes and concepts. Coverage of timely topics—gluten-free diets, the diabetes epidemic, global nutrition—exemplify the book’s contemporary approach to nutrition science.
By Elina Kallas, Adult Educator and Researcher, Estonia
eBook $23.00 | Print Book (hardback) $110.00
With the recent boom in online education causing a rapid change in mainstream learning methodologies, this prescient book examines how to teach adults in synchronous virtual classes. Elina Kallas details essential advice for improving learner engagement in these unique remote environments. A crucial resource for lecturers, professors and adult educators adapting to evolving learning environments. Elgar Guides to Teaching
By Kathleen DeMarrais, Kathryn Roulston, and Janie Copple
eBook: $37.95 | Print Book (Paperback) $37.95
Writing & Developing Your College Textbook
By Mary Ellen Lepionka, Sean W. Wakely, Stephen E. Gillen
eBook $14.95 | Print $19.95 + $5 S&H
Whether you are writing a textbook for a traditional publisher, self-publishing, or writing an open-access textbook, this book covers everything you need to be successful, including how to choose a publisher, write a textbook proposal, negotiate a publishing contract, and establish good author-publisher relations.
Guide to Making Time to Write: 100+ Time & Productivity Management Tips
eBook $9.95 | Print $14.95 + $5 S&H
100+ successful tips and strategies–and a lot of inspiration–from authors who have made the time and made it work. Find just what you need to boost your productivity, adjust your routine, and focus on your writing efforts once and for all. Isn’t it time for you to make the time to write?
Guide to Rights Clearance & Permissions
By Stephen E. Gillen
eBook $9.95 | Print $14.95 + $5 S&H
Learn what you need to know to avoid and manage copyright infringement claims that arise from the publication of your book, article, or media project. You’ll also get practical pointers and guidelines, and more than a dozen templates you can use to request permissions and secure releases.
GUIDE TO TEXTBOOK PUBLISHING CONTRACTS
eBook $7.95 | Print $14.95 + $5 S&H
Essential Books for Authors Bundle
eBook $29.95 | Print $59.95 + $7 S&H
The Essential Books for Authors Bundle has you covered start to finish on your publishing journey. It includes all four TAA books at an amazing bundle price.
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